“Where we’re going… we won’t need wheels”. When Back of the Future’s Doc character histrionically concluded the first movie with the now-famous words, “Where we’re going, we won’t need wheels,” the audience experienced a shared optimism for the future, a wonder at the creative potential of people, and a reassurance that we can continue to […]
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523.2.5 – Great Media Debate
Authors: Ben Chaddock & Emma Keating (posted here as well) Today’s post compares Kozma’s (1994) and Clark’s (1994) positions in the Great Media Debate with recent examples of techno-deterministic thinking by pro-tech firms. The Great Media Debate took off in 1983, with Clark’s article summarizing how fundamental learning methods will remain fundamental, despite technological changes […]
523.1.5 – Assignment 1
Building upon our understanding of ed-tech history from reading Weller (2020), our first major assignment in this unit asked us to choose one person of interest and further explore their contributions to the field. If innovation and technology drive social change, the creative commons license is undoubtedly the vehicle that has helped bring teachers and […]